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To: kcat

There are MANY of us who do, some more affected than others. It’s had many names over the centuries: shell-shock; combat fatigue; thousand-yard stare and so forth, but it’s been a part of combat and war since war began.

Mostly it’s what we do to ourselves rather than to others; only VERY rarely will it flow over onto others. Part of it can be how we respond to our spouses, to authority (especially overbearing, self-appointed authoritarians, like liberals or IRS agents or BATFags or drug cops or so-called big government “conservatives” of the type often found here on FR) figures. For the most part we internalize it, we isolate and we have a real hard time with relationships. Over time this does take a toll and we do have a high suicide rate.


2,316 posted on 11/05/2009 9:32:44 PM PST by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub. III)
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To: dcwusmc

I hope today you are feeling well and strong.


2,400 posted on 11/06/2009 10:18:26 AM PST by kcat
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